So far that puts us at the following for the Wirral:

Saturday night - 2-3inches

Sunday rain thaw

Sunday night heavy snow - 2 inches onto patches of snow

Monday 90% thaw

Monday night - 2inches

Tuesda-Wednesday Freeze - all roads treacherous and pavements a lumpy hard ice rink

Thursday morning - Hard frost (-6) with snow shower and a covering - winter wonderland returns to trees and areas of small thaw.

Although we have not had a jackpot snowfall, this is probably the best winter cold spell in maybe 15 yrs.    We went 6 or 7 yrs to see even an inch of snowfall, to have had 3 in a week!

Settling snow here is vanishingly rare now and is generally only witnessed by driving to the high ground.

Nevertheless my weather diary has now recorded 3 days on falling snow this month. 

11pm - Midnight - 4/1/2025

midnight to 1am - 5/1/2025

6.30-7am - 9/1/2025.

Still, since I don't recall seeing any sleet or snow at all last winter, this winter has already been a big improvement. (With the caveat that my memory is increasingly fallible these days. I can remember 1962-3 far better!)

Pretty similar to yours - although we only got around 4cm on Saturday night (also got less on Sunday 'back edge' event, and less of Monday night). 

We didn't get a full thaw, though, and snow remained on grass and other favoured surfaces. And we did get snow showers Tuesday & Tuesday night that 'filled in' gaps in cover - including roads & pavements).

As such, larges areas have had snow cover since Saturday night.

Otherwise a glorious winter's day here with clear blue sky and still about freezing.

https://www.walklakes.co.uk/maps/dynamic.php?lat=50.849266&lon=-2.316032&z=7&name=Bulbarrow+Hill 

Indeed. We can really see the direct impact of the warming which perhaps people living in a continental climate  wont notice.  After the front cleared this morning, the water in my bird bath froze but on the ground there were still puddles. Real shame we couldn't get the ground temps cold enough for yesterdays snow to stick.

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/arctics.jpg 

Stunning pic 👍

Do you ever get to see & meet the wolves these days?

Beautiful photo. That mere dusting, which looks ore akin to a good, solid frost, is in many ways more atmospheric and photogenic that foot deep snow. Those wolves remind me very much of the white wolves in this incredible music video by M83. Raw, unabashed nobility without even having to try. 

Yes, but infrequently - as we're having real trouble getting enough people down to take them out for a walk. It's been a long, long time since I last went on a "long" walk, instead it's been the "round the back field" shorter walk, again because we have the bare minimum. (We need 6 handlers to take them out at all, 7 to take them on the longer walk - the reason being there are public footpaths crossing the land the longer walk uses, so we have to have a spare to head off any dogs that might be off the lead). This weekend there's only one person down, for example, and it's four the weekend after.

I won't be seeing them for much longer, though; once I get my Dane pup, which may be as soon as late March, I'll bid them farewell. It'll be heartbreaking, but nowhere near as much as it would be to see them at the end of their life - and that's not far away, as they're 14 in a few months. My last memories of them will be of them if not in their prime, at least in good health.

Every time I go there I've been posting an update, which you can see on our website (https://ukwct.org.uk ) - I suspect they'll stop once I stop going, as nobody else seems bothered!

Wolves in general have an air about them which dogs generally can't match - the easy loping gait, the straight-line tracks, even the lack of "puppy dog eyes", as wolves don't have the muscle which allows dogs to make their eyes look big. Wolves instead have a twinkle in their eye if they're feeling mischievous, and don't let their looks fool you - they can be as soppy as any old Labrador if they want to be. (Nuka, my favourite of all, loves to flop on his back for a belly rub, pawing at you if you stop. You can see him on our website - he's on the banner for the updates page).

And though I don't really "do" social media, if I did I'd doubtless post this pic. 😉

https://ukwct.org.uk/images/updates/2201/25.jpg 

The wolves in that video look to me like either pale North American wolves or high-content wolfdogs to me - but they're certainly not dissimilar to Arctic wolves, albeit in summer coats.

(And apologies to those wanting to read snow reports. The snow at the wolf centre is, just, still there, if that counts!)

Brighton seems to have got the worst of all combinations; heavy rain during the afternoon so gritters weren't sent out (the salt would just was away) and then an abrupt switch to heavy snow just at the start of the rush hour before the gritters could get round. Result - chaos, people taking 5 hours to drive 20 miles.

I expect ice to be a big problem locally over the next couple of nights. Everything's sopping wet, and there's been no evaporation worth mentioning today - any grassy areas still squelch when you step on them. Water running off the fields and freezing will doubtless catch a few people out! Places like Brighton will suffer too, as they'll doubtless have had melt that will then freeze again tonight.

Hopefully it'll be a sharp enough frost that it'll just freeze the ground solid. At least then there won't be any more runoff until the general warm-up comes along next week!

It will go down as a very memorable spell.  

Treasure it, I'd say, and make sure to get plenty of videos and photos!

We haven't had 19cm down here this millennium, but it was relatively common before then.

A very British - Red Phone box and Red post box together: - Love it! haha :)

In addition to that, there was also the influence of the North Sea which meant that what fell here was mostly rain with a little bit of sleet and wet snow mixed in at times even though we were within the main event area.

In the end, this delivered a total of 19.2 mm of recorded rainfall at Edinburgh Gogarbank which might well have led to some very deep snow here if only all of that had fallen as snow with all of that snow lying as well.

Given that this winter has been completely snow free here so far, I can now fully understand what a snow starved southerner feels like in that regard but I must point out that there has been a bit of snow recently even in parts of the far south of the UK, so there are bound to be at least a number of those snow starved southerners who are not going to have anything to complain about this time in that regard.

As footnote after this cold spell, snow rows are very poor indeed, even with 32 shown at Inverness they got rain 50 % of the time.

ARPEGE (mf) , was very accurate at forecasting rainfall/ snowfall . Many times it differed from what was forecast , but what it showed is we

What we got, and it was very accurate on its timings too.

BBC app showing it’s going to -13C tonight 🥶🥶🥶🥶

If anything gets here to NW Edinburgh though, it will no doubt just be rain by then as that is what this winter has been like here up until now.